Life Notes

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Pessimists are often right. Optimists are often rich.

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https://lethain.com/good-eng-mgmt-is-a-fad/ Software Engineering Management principles.

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How To Speak

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"Sometimes you're an investment, sometimes you're insurance, and other times you're a luxury or even an impulse buy." - Apt HN comment about evaluating your reason to exist in an organization as an IC.

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Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact | Wes Kao (coach, entrepreneur, advisor)

Podcast Episode · Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career · 04/06/2025 · 1h 34m

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Overcoming insomnia: improving sleep hygiene and treating disordered sleep with cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia | Ashley Mason, Ph

Podcast Episode · The Peter Attia Drive · 03/24/2025 · 2h 5m

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The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility. - Eberhard Bethge

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Sin boldly but believe and rejoice in Christ more boldly still. - Martin Luther

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The curse of a Godless man can sound more pleasant in God's ears than the Hallelujah of the pious. - Martin Luther

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Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity. What you do is an indication of the type of person you think you are—either consciously or nonconsciously. — James Clear

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The dashes: - (dash) – (en-dash) — (em-dash)

dash — for compound words, end-of-line divisions, or stuttering affect (m-m-good), en-dash — for replacing to and from (e.g. 6am–6pm, Boston—NY) em-dash — function like commas, colons, or parenthesis to offset extra information Note: en-dash are the width of a capital N and em-dashed are the width of capital M — hence the name

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SDR — Single Decisive Reason Don’t make decisions based on pros/cons lists. Blended reasoning leads to decisions that are neither compelling nor durable. Force yourself to identify one clear criterion and then take action on it.

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To anyone currently working in the big labs it's strikingly obvious that all major progress in autonomous systems will be through redesigning the models in the first place.

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https://ipinfo.io/ip

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"To admit that an opponent might be both honest and intelligent is felt to be intolerable. It is more immediately satisfying to shout that he is a fool or a scoundrel, or both, than to find out what he is really like." - George Orwell

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The key is identifying what markets are and are not winner take all.

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You can't just get the technology trend correct, you have to identify where the value will accrue.